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quick update from what i've heard from a reliable source: sioux are looking to bring in darcy zajac next year to keep travis here at least a year. sioux are fighting for theissen really hard. sioux would be willing to bring him in next year if jpar goes pro. jordan willert has been talking to UND a lot and it seems like UND is his front runner. jake marto could be asked to stay in the ushl for one more year, because even if smaby goes pro, with chay genoway coming and bina probably coming back, the d would be full. even alexander may not get much playing time. sioux and mankato are the two schools going hardest for marvin. rumors have it he's leaning towards UND.

i'd imagine it's because you dont want to start teaching kids to be stabbing at pucks that are high. despite helmets, you can still get caught across the neck, or the stick could get up under the facemask.

I guess you and I have a different view of who is cheap and dirty in the league. CC, UMD, Tech, and AA are all relatively clean teams. For the most part, Wisconsin is a clean team... and as much as it pains me, except for a few players, the Gophers are a clean team. There's a difference between being a dirty team and just being a rival. I think most fans (sioux and otherwise) are able to separate the two. I hate the Gophers a ton, but they don't go out there and goon it up. SCSU, Mankato, and Denver are some of the teams who you can guarantee it will get chippy. I want all fans around the league to know that if you go to UND, you're not going to get cheap shotted all game, you're not going to have some of your players go down because of prpich taking a swipe at you. I want them to know that if you go to UND, your players are going to get hurt because of the types of hitting we saw last year. Hard hitting, in your face, but clean is the way UND has always been. Let's not become a DU, Mankato or St. Cloud.

The shot by Prpich didn't make Paukovich think twice about cheaping another Sioux player. He took out Oshie AFTER prpich tapped him. For all we know maybe Paukovich was "retaliating" for Prpich's hit by taking out Oshie. It's a never ending cycle... unless it stops now. Paukovich is a cheap player, but let's let the league (hopefully they can handle it) take care of him and his cheapness, rather than lose one of our good players.

the w for UND puts the sioux into 11th in the pwr. denver drops to 16 and is still out of the playoffs. win tomorrow night and we're in excellent position to make the ncaas.

I agree it wasn't that hard of a spear, but it's a spear none-the less. And in no way am I comparing it to the hit on Bina. But are Sioux fans going to continue to want retaliation for the infamous hit until Paukovich is in a wheelchair?

I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but I think the spear by Prpich was cheap, unneccessary, and he should be benched by Hakstol for tomorrow night's game. I hate paukovich and denver as much as the next guy, but there is no need for that. Just like paukovich's hit on bina looked bad on all of DU (im not comparing the actual damage each caused), things like this look badly on all of UND. I'd love to see Paikovich get his, but it's gotta be legal. Let Smaby or Finley grop him with an amazing open-ice hit, but Prpich made an unnecessary, dumb play. Do people agree or do people hate Paukovich so much that they don't care how it happens?

gwozdecky just got kicked out? thats hilarious.... he needs to settle down. whoa.. just saw the replay, looks like a sioux player speared paukovich. i hate the guy as much as anyone, but this is sioux hockey. we don't need to play to their level. prpich makes the entire school look bad. i hope hakstol benches him for the rest of the weekend.

toews with a oshie-esque delay, waited for mannino to go down and then slid it by him. 5-2 sioux... great to see the offense and defense playing together well, especially heading into march. keep it up boys.

actually, it was smaby and stafford on the assists, they had it wrong on tv.

great passing on the pp for the goal ryan duncan is playing excellent tonight sioux up 4-1 edit: radke and stafford on the assists

spirko just manhandled paukovich in the corner.... then parise w/ a nice save on a shot from the point. penalty over, 4:30 left in 2nd 3-0 sioux.

i agree w/ tv announcers in that kaip deserved a 2 min there too, but the du guy should have gotten 4 in that case.

looked like a little crosscheck right before the whistle... but the du player exploded on kaip.

bucky scores, 6-4 mankato, about five minutes left

score updates around the country: CC 4 - UMD 0: 10 minutes left in the 3rd MSUM 5 - Wisco 3: mankato with five straight goals to take the lead into the start of the 3rd SCSU 5 - Tech 1: six minutes left in the third Mich 3 - Ferris 3: final, i think this will help the sioux's rpi WMU 5 - UNO 5: final/ot... western mich scored 3 goals in the last 7 minutes to tie it up

feel free to say that 1st sentence a lot... seems to have worked this time.

oshie w/ a breakaway goal. 3-0 sioux

for those not watching tv... at the end of a scrum a du fan along the boards started going off on prpich and he just sat there and laughed at the guy.

great play by finley? (maybe smaby) to stop a 2 on 1 chance

mike prpich goal!!! great job by that line to keep up the pressure w/o fabian. 2-0 UND.

unless jim is being overly protective, you should be able to post a press release. the point of it is the hope that it gets copied.

being the best in one game is one thing, but when you're shut out in points the first game, then you're probably not going to get picked. especially when you have less points against a weaker opponent. not saying it wouldn't have been nice to see toews get it, but he certainly wasn't the best freshmen this weekend. so to feel like he was jipped is a little ridiculous.

i'm a big sioux fan, but sometimes i wonder if people who complain like the above post aren't huge homers.... 4 assists vs the number 1 ranked team in the league or two goals and an assist vs a bottom feeder. i think kessel is the obvious choice in this one, despite the fact that he's a gopher.

i haven't done a super in-depth look at it, but it seems that beacuse the CCHA did so well during it's non-conference games, it essentially means teams in the ccha are ranked higher because they play each other so much. like the wcha in previous years, if you beat up in non-conference games, your league will get a higher ranking, which means every conference game you play is technically against a "good opponent" even if it's just a lower-conf team.